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it is forcing defense related businesses to cut back. some saying they're already losing contracts. jonathan serrie live on this story for us today from atlanta, georgia. hi, jonathan. >> reporter: good morning, martha. the big problem here is sequestration. although congress has delayed the automatic spending cuts until march, they have not delayed the uncertainty surrounding defense funding. watch. just miles from fort bragg, k-2 solutions trains dogs for police and military use. and provides research and development for equipment and weaponry. but the status of new defense contracts is unclear for this company that employs 274. >> in the past seven months we submitted eight proposals. two of them have been canceled. the other ones are in limbo for up to eight months. >> reporter: this disabled army veteran is ceo of a small company that markets facial recognition technology. >> we late last fall got turned down for funding twice because they said working for the federal government was too unstable. >> reporter: some companies can survive by marketing that irservices to a wide ran
it is forcing defense related businesses to cut back. some saying they're already losing contracts. jonathan serrie live on this story for us today from atlanta, georgia. hi, jonathan. >> reporter: good morning, martha. the big problem here is sequestration. although congress has delayed the automatic spending cuts until march, they have not delayed the uncertainty surrounding defense funding. watch. just miles from fort bragg, k-2 solutions trains dogs for police and military use. and...
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britain's ministry of defense says it was not a military hell copper. this crash happened south of the thames river, very close to the british spy agency mi6. at first witnesses thought it was a terror attack. >> we were sitting having a coffee half past 7: we heard an explosion. sounded like a fighter plane flying over. we heard a loud explosion and thought it was terrorist attack. we came out onto the main road and there was huge piles of smoke on the back. guys are running outside and shouted this is a plane flown into the, the crane there. so, you know, we tried to see if anyone was hurt. martha: the witnesses to this scene, the pilot and one person on the ground were killed. the top of the crane was said to be obscured by fog at the time. bill: absolutely bizarre when you heard about that this morning. you can understand why they thought it was terrorism too based on the history in that town. live reports on the streets of london coming up later this morning. meantime the house passing a nearly $51 billion sandy relief bill last night, now heading
britain's ministry of defense says it was not a military hell copper. this crash happened south of the thames river, very close to the british spy agency mi6. at first witnesses thought it was a terror attack. >> we were sitting having a coffee half past 7: we heard an explosion. sounded like a fighter plane flying over. we heard a loud explosion and thought it was terrorist attack. we came out onto the main road and there was huge piles of smoke on the back. guys are running outside and...
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defense secretary leon panetta is in london this morning. he said this morning that u.s. officials are quote, woulding around the clock to assure the safe return of our citizens, bill. bill: throughout this ordeal we have heard this could be tied to what is happening with the french in the neighboring country of mali. now is that true or can we dismiss that now, james? >> reporter: no, i think it is undeniably a fact are to. the group that carried out the original assault on the bp complex is called the masked brigade. they are based in mali and are an offshoot of al qaeda. islamist terrorists took over the northern half of mali some nine months ago making it the largest terrorist safe may have in the world. france just dispatched 2500 troops to mali. speaking in italy yesterday, secretary panetta said the u.s. decimated al qaeda's leadership then he added a important qualification. >> there are still a threat. they're a threat in yemen. they're a threat in somalia. they're a threat as we speak in mali. aqim is part of al qaeda. so we still have a challenge to confront te
defense secretary leon panetta is in london this morning. he said this morning that u.s. officials are quote, woulding around the clock to assure the safe return of our citizens, bill. bill: throughout this ordeal we have heard this could be tied to what is happening with the french in the neighboring country of mali. now is that true or can we dismiss that now, james? >> reporter: no, i think it is undeniably a fact are to. the group that carried out the original assault on the bp...